We mourn the 13 victims of the Columbine High School shooting today and sadly reflect on what has — and has not — changed in the past 25 years. For many, the shock of that day still reverberates, amplified by the hundreds of school shootings since then.
I heard the end of innocence echo in the voice of my then-9-year-old daughter that day as I picked her up from school after a day directing coverage of the tragedy for The Associated Press. She already knew what had happened. Everyone did.
“Will we have a shooting at our school?” came a small voice from the back seat of the car. It still breaks my heart that I could not honestly give her the words she craved.
Today, we share reflections on Columbine from three writers.
I ABSOLUTELY remember this raw and real tragedy.....I was sitting in a motel room in ANCHORAGE,ALASKA,having just arrived there two days ago. My husband was at work and I was waiting for the realtor call,to set a time for touring homes for us. I was stunned and could not wrap my mind around the scenes playing out oh the tv screen.......TWENTY FIVE YEARS and how many thousands of deaths later,we r STILL MOURNING MURDERS OF CHILDREN......what IS WRONG???? R WE THAT NONCHALANT AND NUMB???? Apparently that is our m.o. now.
